I sat next to Adrian Cockcraft on the plane up to San Jose yesterday. He just finished the ETech conference in San Diego. He told me about his concept of bringing the Web 2.0 infrastructure to mobile appliances with some consistency. FLORWAX uses flash with AJAX like behaviors built on the Ruby on Rails platform. […]
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View your site in shades of grey
Mike Cherim just announced the beta version of his new contrast-testing site. Graybit.com allows you to see what your site looks like when colors are removed. What does it answer? Is your site still usable? Is there enough contrast? Are you telling people to click on the cute red button? Do your forms use color […]
Mouseover CSS inspector for Firefox
Nicolas Huon recently released CSSViewer, a Firefox extension that gives you a summary of dimensions and styles associated with an element when you mouse over it. I’ve been a big fan of Slayeroffice’s Mouseover DOM Inspector, but this new extension is much easier to use and certainly helps solve your layout problems.
Creating a Common JavaScript File
Dustin Diaz released his personal recipe for a common JavaScript file. You know the file that includes the basic functions that any web site can use. We’ve all grabbed some of these scripts from here and there and its nice to see it one-stop shopping packaging.